University of Palermo
28/03/2025
Advice is sometimes offered that you should “reflect” upon what you have said or written. Such advice is often acknowledged but not necessarily enacted. In this particular Conversation, each of the editors has been interviewed, and I have encouraged them to reflect upon what we are doing – or trying to do – with the EURA Conversations blog. Without identifying any of the comments from a specific editor, this Conversation is a summation of where we think we are at, and how we might want to take the Conversation forward. A number of contributors to the EURA Conversations blog have been approached to respond to this piece. I would encourage all readers to respond as well. We, the editors, are merely the curators of YOUR blog...
20/12/2024
In 1929, with his painting La Trahison des images, René Magritte famously declared, “Ceci n’est pas une pipe," challenging the relationship between representation and reality. He highlighted the distinction between an image and what it represents. In a similar short-circuit, Gregory Bateson, in Mind and Nature (1984), revisited a principle popularized by Alfred Korzybski, stating, «the map is not the territory, and the name is not the thing named». These statements highlight the complexity inherent in our understanding of urban space and territory, illustrating the many diverse ways they can be perceived across various disciplines....
05/12/2024
